I have 03 hardware and I like a lot of people are running roms that are using the 3.30 base on 03 hardware. So I was getting about a 10% battery drop for every 2 hours of use on 3.30 based rom. I tried several 3.30 based roms and the battery life was the same.
So I reverted back to a rom that was based on 2.29 and my battery life increased closer to 3+ hours for every 10% battery used. So from my nonscientific test it seems that running a rom designed for your hardware will yield the best battery life.
I also noticed with 3.30 that my standby seemed ok but when the screen was on I had insane battery drop. Just some info that I have noticed I hope this helps. One question if most hardware is 02 & 03 why are a majority of roms going to the 3.30 base?
I'd say because 3.30 is the newest and most of us like to have the latest and greatest.
As for standby, using system panel my phone has an almost flat line in battery doing nothing at home on wifi and slight drop with wifi off on both 3.30 & 3.29. But, with 3.30 based roms I would see a lot of drain when I would actually use my phone. I'm using a 3.29 based rom now and my barter life while using my phone is good again, but not quite what it was with the old virus rom.
Also, on 3.30 ten minutes of robo defense would take about 15% or so of my battery but only a few percent on 3.29.
003 hardware phone using stock kernels.
Well I don't want the newest if it give poor battery life.
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Well I don't want the newest if it give poor battery life.
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Yeah theres a different camera used in the 004's. This should only require more drivers to have it function correctly which would not contribute to battery drain in itself.
There are many functions that contribute to battery drain like signal, use, programs installed....
What everyone needs to know is when you compare the two base's to each other you would have to do so on the same exact rom with different base's, and also complete testing after clearing battery stats and running the phone for a week. And even then it would be difficult to get a great comparission as your signal is never going to be the exact same on both trials less you left ur phone stationary the entire time. Same kernel would have to be used on both tests too as that effects the battery greatly.
Well those 3.30 roms are using the htc kernel #17 which blows chunks. it was killing me, the htc kernel #10 is what you need. I would use that kernel without setCPU and it would just destroy netarchy's 4.2.1 more smartass kernel.
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Well those 3.30 roms are using the htc kernel #17 which blows chunks. it was killing me, the htc kernel #10 is what you need. I would use that kernel without setCPU and it would just destroy netarchy's 4.2.1 more smartass kernel.
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I agree.. htc #17 was giving me terrible battery life
speedracerbubba said:
I'd say because 3.30 is the newest and most of us like to have the latest and greatest.
As for standby, using system panel my phone has an almost flat line in battery doing nothing at home on wifi and slight drop with wifi off on both 3.30 & 3.29. But, with 3.30 based roms I would see a lot of drain when I would actually use my phone. I'm using a 3.29 based rom now and my barter life while using my phone is good again, but not quite what it was with the old virus rom.
Also, on 3.30 ten minutes of robo defense would take about 15% or so of my battery but only a few percent on 3.29.
003 hardware phone using stock kernels.
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CM6.1RC2 is out, but I don't use it because it's for the Droid Incredible and I have an Evo. If "the latest and greatest" isn't made for my hardware, it ain't really the latest and greatest, now is it. 3.30 is made for hardware version 004 and 3.29 is, to date, the latest and greatest for 001, 002, and 003. There maybe some 003 devises that are fully compatible w/ 3.30, but mine isn't. So far Rick Simon is the only dev I'm aware of who's figured this out, so I'm runnin' Azrael 2.5 w/ #11 kernal. It's fast, stable, and battery life is ok - thanks ricsim78!
Now you're just nit picking. Just because the bugatti veyron has over a thousand hp doesn't mean my jeep can have it, too. Well, with enough money it could.
How about because it is the newest for the device?
I, too, am running the same rom and am very happy with it. Patiently waiting for the update he said would happen today.
I have an old 003 hardware version. I am a minimal user, most of the day my phone is asleep in its holster.
I will defer to people who use their phone on the battery life issue (but, if you really want to answer the question, you have to do comparisons of the sort done by that guy who has the charts on the red website - listing amount of energy being consumed per amount of time, rather than how much your battery percent dropped).
What I will say, though, is that there is a night and day difference between my camera on 3.30 and 3.29. 3.30 is much, much better. try taking the exact same pictures using those two, and you'll see what I mean.
for that reason, i'm sticking with 3.30, as battery has not been an issue for my usage style.
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Hi, so far the only rom I have used is CM6, and the battery life is just absolutely terrible. Maybe its just my nexus, maybe not, point is I want a new ROM.
A ROM that you guys have tried and decided to stick to.
Battery life is VERY important to me.
Try IntersectRaven's CFS kernel, best I have found for CM
For ROM try Enomther, battery life pretty good on that one
Rellikzephyr
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I had been using CM 6 for a while and just recently switched over to Enomether's latest TheOfficial ROM. The battery life is now DRAMATICALLY better. Just looking over the Juice Plotter graphs shows that the standby time overnight is almost flat. Say 3-4% drop every 3 hours or so. With CM6, the battery level is on a constant and steeper decline, even when not in use. I didn't take any records, but my N1 on CM6 would be down to ~45-50% overnight if I forget to plug in the charger (from full). I heard that SetCpu will help, but I don't think it worked out for me.
Enomether has its own CPU Governor and while it doesn't offer as many features as SetCPU - the ROM's default settings work well right out of the box - no tweaking is needed really for the CPU governor.
I too was having really poor battery life with CM6, losing about 50% within 8 hours after charge, without even using the phone much! I'm trying out other roms right now just for fun. I'm using Evil's Nxsense but with the kernal posted by Autinhyeu (post # 8541 in that thread). So far seems to be holding battery extremely well. About 5 hours since charge and about 90% battery.
LeoFroYo Rom is pretty good with battery
try the leofroyo rom latest beta. i get great battery in standby with the stock kernal that it comes with. 2.5 hrs per 1% battery. typically in a day making calls and using the internet, i lose about 30%-25% battery. not too bad.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=693595
2.0.1 beta 3 is the latest version that i'm using
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I too was having really poor battery life with CM6, losing about 50% within 8 hours after charge, without even using the phone much! I'm trying out other roms right now just for fun. I'm using Evil's Nxsense but with the kernal posted by Autinhyeu (post # 8541 in that thread). So far seems to be holding battery extremely well. About 5 hours since charge and about 90% battery.
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cm sucks when it comes to battery life in my experience. i tried the 6.0 version when it came out (first stable release) and battery life was horrible.
5 hours since charge? only standby or some usage?
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cm sucks when it comes to battery life in my experience. i tried the 6.0 version when it came out (first stable release) and battery life was horrible.
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That was mostly standby with setcpu profile setting cpu to minimum when the screen was off. But even with those same settings on CM6 my battery would be about 70% after the same amount of time.
I just reflashed cm6 but with that other kernal so I'll see how well it works today.
MIUI has the best battery life of any ROM I've used on my N1.. idle drain of about .5% / hour when using pershoot's kernels from droidbasement.
I'm using shadow rom2.1 stripped down and I get about 16 to 18 hours usage.
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I'm using CM6 and my battery life is great. I got rid of my Seidio extended battery to get an Otterbox case and the stock battery on CM6 is awesome.
My phone has been off the charger since before 1pm and now at midnight its on 46% and thats with heavy use of Angry Birds, text, emails and web browsing !
My battery life is also acceptable on cm6. Not amazing but acceptable. Then again I put mine in airplane mode overnight and get about a 4% drain, which I kind assume might be something to do with my Widgets.
Okay, so I decided to try one of these two ROMs:
Enomther
LeoFroYo
not sure which one yet, and not sure what kernel to use with the ROM I choose.
I hate switching ROMs cuz of the wiping and restoring and all that crap.
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Okay, so I decided to try one of these two ROMs:
Enomther
LeoFroYo
not sure which one yet, and not sure what kernel to use with the ROM I choose.
I hate switching ROMs cuz of the wiping and restoring and all that crap.
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I still recommend IntersectRaven's kernel, he has cm and non cm versions
Rellikzephyr
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Rodrigo's miui is the best I've seen.
Easily lasts the whole day
do you guys know if the leofroyo rom will work with slcd nexus w/ updated HBOOT??
i posted in the leofroyo rom thread, but no replies yet. itching to give it a shot.
cm6 is eating battery like crazy!
rods miui has amazing battery life It lasted two days for me on release 1.3 I think he is on 1.5 now
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do you guys know if the leofroyo rom will work with slcd nexus w/ updated HBOOT??
i posted in the leofroyo rom thread, but no replies yet. itching to give it a shot.
cm6 is eating battery like crazy!
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dont see why not! give one of the betas ago!
First off, this might be a topic for the general forum, but since is pertains directly to development, i thought i would put it here... Mods.. please move if you feel this is inappropriate.
There seems to be some HUGE differences with Ava v10 and battery life and i wanted to try and narrow down what the differences are to see what is up!
What i am curious about and would like you to post is the following:
Hardware Version
Screen
Kernel you are using
battery life / Usage
If we are seeing a pattern here then we should be able to determine the problem and hopefully yield some good data for devs to use. If it is still very random.. then its got to be an app that is causing the issues.
I will start
Hardware 003
Epson
Stock Kernel
8 - 9 hours MAX on moderate - use (lots of texting, some calls, and a little web browsing) Was getting WAY better on v9 before 3.30 update (v9a)
It is apparent the 3.30.2/3 has drastically ****ed battery life. There has been way too many posts about it to ignore it now.
It isn't HTC kernel 17 related like someone said earlier either. It goes deeper than that because I never run HTC kernels, not even for 5 minutes after installing a rom and I notice it very much. It appears that the current during idle isn't affected. And it isn't a rogue program PR anything keeping the CPU from idling. I dunno what it is. But it really is very noticeable.
I wish more dev's would realize it and make updated 3.29s with some of the new stuff built-in like the pnotification pulldown switch thing, and stuff like that.
Thanks azrael so far for not ignoring the situation. Lol. I'm sure HTC will put out a version 3.40.00 or whatever that has ackrite for all hardware versions. And then it will be easier on the devs
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It is apparent the 3.30.2/3 has drastically ****ed battery life. There has been way too many posts about it to ignore it now.
It isn't HTC kernel 17 related like someone said earlier either. It goes deeper than that because I never run HTC kernels, not even for 5 minutes after installing a rom and I notice it very much. It appears that the current during idle isn't affected. And it isn't a rogue program PR anything keeping the CPU from idling. I dunno what it is. But it really is very noticeable.
I wish more dev's would realize it and make updated 3.29s with some of the new stuff built-in like the pnotification pulldown switch thing, and stuff like that.
Thanks azrael so far for not ignoring the situation. Lol. I'm sure HTC will put out a version 3.40.00 or whatever that has ackrite for all hardware versions. And then it will be easier on the devs
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It seems only hardware version 0004 is mostly unaffected by the new frame software and I know the only difference is camera hardware but that may be it
Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
Hardware: 003
Screen: not sure how to tell I am a newbie
stock kernel that comes with AVA V10
Right now I am home and not on the road working so my useage is lighter but I did go to bed last night with >50% life remaining and the phone had been off charger >15 hours
4-5 calls none were more than 5 min long
a little texting, couple emails (with polling every 30 min from 8-8), FB and Twitter updating at a regular interval (about every 30 min)
Bluetooth on for around 2 hrs, wifi on most of the day as I was at home using my home network so it was connected and not scanning.
Went to mall for about an hour and that has notoriously bad Sprint signal inside most places.
I ran the following:
hardware 002
Novatek screen
kernel: HTC 10, HTC 11, HTC 17, Kings #10 & #11 (both variants), Netarchy 4.1.9.1 & 4.2.1 beta (havs, no havs, bfs, cfs, smartass)
Some web browsing, facebook, texts, maybe 10-20 min of calls per day if that.
I'd get MAX 6-8 hours from fully charged to completely dead.
Went back to MIUI 11.19 and am consistently getting 15+ hours with moderate to heavy use.
If I try and run any ROM with the 3.30 file system, my battery totally sucks no matter which kernel I use.
Evo hardware version: 003
Screen Type: unknown (don't know how to tell)
3.30-ROMs tested: Ava V10, EViO 2
Kernels: various, in text
When I first switched to the first 3.30-based ROM, I noticed a big reduction in battery life. I tried another and ran into the same thing.
After one day on Ava V10, on a recommendation I tried the EViO 2 v1.6, along with the "netarchy-toastmod-4.2.1-bfs-bfq-nohavs-smartass-universal (No HAVS)" kernel, and with extremely light usage (1 short call, and few texts) after 19-hours I was showing an 89% charge. With this kernel the phone slept very well. The problem was that with that same kernel, even moderate usage sucked the battery very quickly.
So, based on things that I read I switched to the "netarchy-toastmod-4.2.1-bfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass-universal (More Aggressive Undervolting)". Using this combo, sitting on my desk with zero usage for 11-hours it was displaying 89% charge, so sleeping did not appear to be as efficient. However through the day, normal usage (moderate) seemed to provide a bit more time per charge. It did not appear to be a drastic difference.
On another recommendation, I then tried the netarchy-toastmod-4.1.9.1-cfs-NoHAVS-universal kernel. Overnight, no usage, after 9-hours I was again at 89% charge. Normal usage netted slightly worse time than the netarchy-toastmod-4.2.1-bfs-bfq-nohavs-smartass-universal (No HAVS) kernel provided.
Behavioral observation: The 4.2.1 No HAVS kernel produced slightly higher Quadrant scores than the 4.1.9.1 kernel did, but overall in normal operation, the phone was more sluggish and draggy on the 4.2.1 kernel, while being snappier and feeling faster overall using the 4.1.9.1 kernel.
Also, please note that the best battery time I ever got on any 3.30-based ROM pales in comparison to my experience earlier in the year with DC3.5 and an older Toastmod DC-compatible kernel. Once, after almost 21-hours off the charger, light usage throughout the night and at the very end of a 3+ hour phone call, I got the charge warning that I was at 15%. I don't know why I changed.
At this point I made an inquiry through a friend and was told that the difference between the 3.29-build and the 3.30-build was that the 3.30-build has a few small changes made to support hardware changes on version 004 Evo's only. I was also told that 3.30-build ROMs were not going to run well on 001-003 Evo's. I'm sure that is not absolute and they can be made to, but it may take some work.
Sorry for the novella, and I hope that it helps. Thank you for your time.
Hardware Version: 0003
Screen: EPSON
Kernel you are using: STOCK
battery life / Usage: MOD to HEAVY USAGE - OVER 25 HOURS on FIRST FULL CHARGE of battery!
NOTE: I also had AUTOKILLER set to STRICT during this entire time, and not to AGGRESSIVE.
Detailed post with pic showing my over 20 hour mark still in the GREEN:
HERE!!!
I'm now in the process of trying out Net-TM 4.2.1 CFS-HAVS-LESS AGG with V10.
bender1077 said:
Hardware Version: 0003
Screen: EPSON
Kernel you are using: STOCK
battery life / Usage: MOD to HEAVY USAGE - OVER 25 HOURS on FIRST FULL CHARGE of battery!
NOTE: I also had AUTOKILLER set to STRICT during this entire time, and not to AGGRESSIVE.
Detailed post with pic showing my over 20 hour mark still in the GREEN:
HERE!!!
I'm now in the process of trying out Net-TM 4.2.1 CFS-HAVS-LESS AGG with V10.
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what was your "awake" time with this? This will be the tell.
When i ran ava 10 i got like 10 hours max. Alot of the 3.30 roms sucked my battery life. Fresh 3.3 rom gave me best battery life and i upgraded to his 3.4 and my bat sucked. Now im running airbourne rc4 and i think im getting the best battery I've ever had and its 3.30 based. It does have the sense launcher removed but all other sense is still there that could be the problem.
Novatek and 003
I decided to reload v10 and only restore a few essential apps and see where i was at. i did this, and had a full charge late last night.
This was with ALL settings defaulted to what is in v10 and no setcpu. The ONLY thing that i changed was the autokiller settings to "optimum"
It has now been 14.5 hours since i unplugged it (7 was me sleeping)
and "awake time" has only been 2.5 hours
It has been a pretty light day for usage - couple phone calls, mostly texts and emails and i am at 50%
This is MUCH better, but i really have not used my phone like i normally do. And this is with only a few apps installed.
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what was your "awake" time with this? This will be the tell.
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I think was a little over 5 hours. I'll have to remember to get a pic of that next time
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I think was a little over 5 hours. I'll have to remember to get a pic of that next time
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huh.. thats pretty good! lol... hmm..
a little off topic......how do you tell who made the screen on your EVO?
skydeaner said:
It is apparent the 3.30.2/3 has drastically ****ed battery life. There has been way too many posts about it to ignore it now.
It isn't HTC kernel 17 related like someone said earlier either. It goes deeper than that because I never run HTC kernels, not even for 5 minutes after installing a rom and I notice it very much. It appears that the current during idle isn't affected. And it isn't a rogue program PR anything keeping the CPU from idling. I dunno what it is. But it really is very noticeable.
I wish more dev's would realize it and make updated 3.29s with some of the new stuff built-in like the pnotification pulldown switch thing, and stuff like that.
Thanks azrael so far for not ignoring the situation. Lol. I'm sure HTC will put out a version 3.40.00 or whatever that has ackrite for all hardware versions. And then it will be easier on the devs
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At this point I made an inquiry through a friend and was told that the difference between the 3.29-build and the 3.30-build was that the 3.30-build has a few small changes made to support hardware changes on version 004 Evo's only. I was also told that 3.30-build ROMs were not going to run well on 001-003 Evo's. I'm sure that is not absolute and they can be made to, but it may take some work.
Sorry for the novella, and I hope that it helps. Thank you for your time.
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So dont remember where I got this from (someone in another topic), but it completely confirms everything that we have been talking about...
NO 3.30 rom is made for hardware 001-003 period.. directly from sprint.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/com.../blog/2010/11/05/htc-evo-maintenance-releases
so the problem now is devs are either going to have to split their roms in to 2 branches (one for pre-004 hardware and one for 004 hardware) OR... sprint need to come out with a unified release. SO... hopefully devs will read this and make changes accordingly
hello everyone. I have been using Cyanogenmod 7.1 for a little while now. I am getting tired of it for right now. I am wanting to try something with sense 3.0 and GB rom. Which one's are great and fully working on the Evo? Also do any of them have better battery life?
P.S. I am currently trying out Synergy rom. My friend has the LG phones on Verizon and man they get awesome battery life. 12 hours off the charger and his phone is only down to 73%. He has been making a lot of calls but man my Evo was off the charger for 16 hours and was down to 15% and I barely even used the phone. I hope the Evo 3D has much better battery life, otherwise I may buy an 3500MAH battery for my evo.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120734
WORKING NETFLIX! NEW! [AllianceROM][r7.4] HybriD 3D[Sense 2.1 OTA][Stock&Themed]
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All the Hybrid 3.0 ROMS are good. All of them.
Battery life is not going to be like your friends until we can have custom kernels, which we can't have yet. Not until HTC releases the source code.
Battery life varies from phone to phone anyhow
HipKat said:
All the Hybrid 3.0 ROMS are good. All of them.
Battery life is not going to be like your friends until we can have custom kernels, which we can't have yet. Not until HTC releases the source code.
Battery life varies from phone to phone anyhow
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ok thank you. Looks like I'll be flashing and testing out roms today, thanks again I will report anything else here.
Alliance Rom is pretty
Evo 4g
MikG-c2.15 is working very well - no issues at all. Battery easily lasts a day with fairly heavy use. This is probably the best ROM I have ever had on the Evo. (and I have tried MANY.)
RECOMMENDED.
I love Synergy and MikG but I can't use them as an everyday rom because of the battery life. With Synergy I watched my battery drop to 70% in like three hours after I had my phone off the charger for a few hours yesterday morning. And I had barely touched the phone! That is completely unacceptable to me, sorry. I need my SBC and HAVS. I wanted to go back to MikFroyo but I have an issue with the display usage (stays at like 90% even with the screen off and not touching the phone) that drains the battery in like 10 hours.
Tried to go back to my Salvage-Mod nandroid but it somehow got corrupt. I almost went back to Myn's twopointtwo but I didn't want something so outdated (still a great rom though). So here I am now using CM7...not the biggest fan in the world but it works and it's giving me great battery life with Tiamat kernel 4.0.5. A little over 20 hours with medium usage.
I don't understand what happened with MikFroyo. I never had the display usage issue before. Then it just came out of no where and stayed like that. I tried going back to 4.5 (which I know for a fact it didn't do that on) and it still did it. Tried switching kernels, nothing. I used to get 25-30 hours with a charge on 4.62, and Salvage-Mod gave me the same battery life. So I'm just hoping that new kernels with SBC and HAVS will let me be able to keep Synergy or MikG as a daily.
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I love Synergy and MikG but I can't use them as an everyday rom because of the battery life. With Synergy I watched my battery drop to 70% in like three hours after I had my phone off the charger for a few hours yesterday morning. And I had barely touched the phone! That is completely unacceptable to me, sorry. I need my SBC and HAVS. I wanted to go back to MikFroyo but I have an issue with the display usage (stays at like 90% even with the screen off and not touching the phone) that drains the battery in like 10 hours.
Tried to go back to my Salvage-Mod nandroid but it somehow got corrupt. I almost went back to Myn's twopointtwo but I didn't want something so outdated (still a great rom though). So here I am now using CM7...not the biggest fan in the world but it works and it's giving me great battery life with Tiamat kernel 4.0.5. A little over 20 hours with medium usage.
I don't understand what happened with MikFroyo. I never had the display usage issue before. Then it just came out of no where and stayed like that. I tried going back to 4.5 (which I know for a fact it didn't do that on) and it still did it. Tried switching kernels, nothing. I used to get 25-30 hours with a charge on 4.62, and Salvage-Mod gave me the same battery life. So I'm just hoping that new kernels with SBC and HAVS will let me be able to keep Synergy or MikG as a daily.
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Keep me updated. I have been using Syngergy today and battery life is ok. I would go back to CM7 but having all of the random reboots when 4G is turned on kinda got old.
I need my SBC and HAVS,. also, but you DO know you cannot judge battery life right after flashing the ROM, right? You DO know you have to let it settle in for a day or 2, right?
this is with 28% remaining after heavy use
this is with 12% remaining after heavy use (ignore the 28% in the header...)
HipKat said:
I need my SBC and HAVS,. also, but you DO know you cannot judge battery life right after flashing the ROM, right? You DO know you have to let it settle in for a day or 2, right?
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Exactly what I was gonna say.
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It all started back in May. I purchased my first "smart" phone, and caught a qbking77 video on how to root. Now I'm addicted to crack, and love our awesome devs. They have done so much for me, if they had car trouble, id be the first to lend my hand. On to my question now. I realize our hardware doesn't respond the same to various roms, but why is it, even after multiple epic 4g's, does MIUI always have the best battery life? I know its not fully complete, but it just rapes the competition. Any knowledge here?
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probably because as you said, its not completely running everything the hardware can so it uses less battery
From my understanding though, mms and 4g still aren't working, which I never use anyway, and these are huge bettery drainers for a lot of ROMs, so what gives? 4g is sprints joke laughing down on us. MIUI is an asian based software right? Is it the 2.3.7 tweaks that make it better?
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I also expected better battery life with GB, but it did not happen. Downloaded betterbatterystats and identified a partial wakelock, froze that app... testing it out again.
dohturdima said:
I also expected better battery life with GB, but it did not happen. Downloaded betterbatterystats and identified a partial wakelock, froze that app... testing it out again.
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i guess each device is different. before i went to gb, i used to take my phone to the gym with me as for music. i usually streamed pandora, sirius, or googlemusic, sometimes listening from my phones hd. I would go to the gym about 1.5-2 hrs and leave with about using 25-35% of battery avg. With GB, i used about~20%... but this is only 2 days so far..
Well, I've been flashing and testing a hell of a lot of Rom and kernels lately, and the best battery life seems to be with SenseiSimple's SleeperROM. I use the latest version of earthbound [iap]'s Samurai kernel. That kernel allows for a hell of a lot of flexibility in terms of frequency and voltage, so you can fiddle around a bit to find a combo that works for you best. The SleeperROM already uses the Samurai kernel by default, but it is presently still compatible with the latest BETA version.
SleeperRom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345896
Samurai Kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342047
Hello all
I have been roaming around XDA for a very long time now and I finally made an account because I simply cannot find an answer. I have a samsung vibrant and not the 4g nor can I upgrade(long story). I use my phone when I need it and i text alot. But lately my battery life hasn't been any good, I've tried reconditioning and the whole bit and nothing seems to give me my needed battery life. I am currently using ICS passion 13 RC1 and it works great, when Im not doing anything -.-; When I use it like for the internet or text a lot it drains. I got to 48% in 2 hours one time and thats with limited background processes. I know ALL about the keeping background proccesses and data using apps down so I hardly have any apps installed, which is very irritating at times, I dont even use the facebook app for that reason. I tried many different roms and it seemed Axura had done that best at one point but it was taken down or is no longer supported for whatever reason so I am now in search for a rom that can get me through the day. I text a lot and web browse occasionally. I dont have wifi so i cannot use that to save battery life while surfing so thats out. I would appreciate all the help and will try every rom if i have to lol XD
I appologize for the long message but I am so tired of hesitating to use my phone as a smart phone.
I get good battery life on the ICS Euphoria ROM. Your battery could be shot, you might try replacing it.
Any of the 2.3 or newer roms are going to get bad battery life. Fishmanmod's updating of Bionics has been very smooth and getting great battery life for me.
I find that battery life between 2.2 and ics is pretty much identical for me as long as there are no wakelocks preventing deep sleep. I'm currently on CM9 nightly w/ glitch kernel and deep idle enabled in nstools and have no battery life problems.
You could also look into getting an official 1800mah battery if you really need more juice
ICS Slim hands down the best.
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Your issue is Passion. That ROM chews through battery worse than any I've ever used in the 2 years I've had my phone.
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Its not just your Rom, I am on the CM9 nightly and noticed ICS ate my battery by noon today. I was down to 3% from 7am. Granted I am toying with it a bit more but I was still at work so I couldnt use it non stop and I wasnt even watching videos or listening to music on it. I have updated the kernel to SubZero 34 to see if that helps.
Chances are, your battery has lost some of its ability to hold a charge. I recommend buying a new OEM battery, chances are it'll increase your battery life by a good two or three hours.
So far, I haven't noticed a significant variation in battery use in various ROMs, I've found battery life to be more determined by the kernel.
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On a side note, I destroyed my screen by stepping on it a few weeks ago. Ordered a new AMOLED screen (not the LCD knockoffs) and battery life did in crease by about 3-4 hours. Same OS, same battery.
So I think some excess drain could be caused by the screen, which might explain why some phones had such poor battery and others don't. I also no longer have the "graying/shadow" issue that plagues some of these phone.
So far ive had the best battery life with ICS passion RC2.1 and my 1800mah anker battery
Since flashing CM9 and then putting on the SubZero kernel (34) I did a full charge and decharge to test and got 12+ hours on it with my normal use. So I have to say SubZero kernel really helps out if you are on ICS.
I f you dont mind going back to a 2.2 rom I would suggest trying bionix 1.3.1 fishmanMod or Deranged9 fishmanMod alpha 1 both get awesome battery life especially when mixed with juice defender.
I was also using ICS Passion and noticed a significant degradation in available battery life. I have three batteries so I'm confident it was the From. Until then I had been using various Froyo rooms and all seemed to have better battery life than ICS. I personally felt it was more likely to be your kernel choice that would impact battery life. I just switched to the SLIM ICS from and I gave been very impressed with both the battery and the responsiveness. Same quadrant scores as Passion but it feels so much faster
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I haven't taken the dive into ICS yet i may have to try that out.
If you r searching for nice n smooth rom try
[4.0.4][6-Apr]Slim ICS [3.2]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520919
another thing you can do while flashing wipe battery stats only once....then reboot to normal drain your battery till it reaches 1% charge it full widout any interruption and when it reaches to 100% unplug it and do the calibration from any software available in the market I use Battery Calibration Professionals
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...2ZmZXNpb25hbHMuYmF0dGVyeS5jYWxsaWJyYXRpb24iXQ..
repeat the process for atleast 3 days in a row and you will feel the difference..hit thanks if it helps
@OP ICS is simply not battery friendly. You're going to want to use froyo if battery life is that important to you.
Or you can build a battery friendly ICS rom and let us know how it all is
The later builds of Cyanogenmod9 I have been on the stock kernel and its going all day with moderate use without battery issues.
Leafy_duk said:
Any of the 2.3 or newer roms are going to get bad battery life. Fishmanmod's updating of Bionics has been very smooth and getting great battery life for me.
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Bionix Fishman Mod is the first custom ROM I've ever installed on my phone and it's battery life is AWESOME. I recently added an 1800 mah battery and I've had 24+ hours on one charge with moderate to heavy use. The ROM itself is smooth as glass and no glitches to speak of.
Trying Bionix
Xdogg said:
I f you dont mind going back to a 2.2 rom I would suggest trying bionix 1.3.1 fishmanMod or Deranged9 fishmanMod alpha 1 both get awesome battery life especially when mixed with juice defender.
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I just installed bionix-V FishmanMod Final 3. Fingers crossed. I don't mind switching back to 2.2 as long as I have better battery. However I did notice when I reinstalled ICS before going to bionix that just factory, not even logging into the market. I got 1 day and 7 hours of battery life, granted I did not do much but text occasionally and some web browsing here and there. Is it possible that the android market is constantly checking on stuff or there is some data being proccessed constantly? I do live in an area where my signal is not great for 3g like 1-2 bars.
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I just installed bionix-V FishmanMod Final 3. Fingers crossed. I don't mind switching back to 2.2 as long as I have better battery. However I did notice when I reinstalled ICS before going to bionix that just factory, not even logging into the market. I got 1 day and 7 hours of battery life, granted I did not do much but text occasionally and some web browsing here and there. Is it possible that the android market is constantly checking on stuff or there is some data being proccessed constantly? I do live in an area where my signal is not great for 3g like 1-2 bars.
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Alright so after about a day with the rom, I noticed it's just as bad. I am still getting battery drain and yes I have a new battery in so it is not that. I unplugged it from around noon, did alot of working on it with reflashes and little bits of texting and mostly just scrolling around the O.S. im now at 44%. its been about 5 - 6 hours.
Although I have been switching the battery between 2 phones and their battery meter is very different. like a 5% difference so that may be confusing it. Will update.